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President Paula Johnson told graduates: “We are in the midst of a degree of meddling that American colleges and universities have not seen since the McCarthy era in the late 1940s and 1950s.”

Andriana Petrykevych '28 and Yelyzaveta Zablotska '28 are both part of the Wellesley Ukrainian Cultural Association. Zablotska said the club has allowed her to build community and help her country.

A theory suggests that consciousness is a quantum process, connecting us all to the entire universe. Neuroscientist Mike Wiest thinks those tubes may carry quantum information that never stays put.

Firms are delaying or canceling projects that don’t fit with Trump administration priorities according to the Big Green Machine, Jay Turner’s initiative tracking clean technology investments.

Economist Phillip Levine found that schools with large endowments spend more educating each student than their published tuition, which means that every student, in some sense, receives financial aid.

Over the years we have created stereotypes of who and what twins are, perceptions warped by history and pop culture. Philosopher Helena De Bres believes these stereotypes play on human anxieties.

A new study from researchers at MIT, Wellesley, and Mass Art found that giving writers free reign to use AI as much as they wanted led to some bleak outcomes including lower brain activity.

America’s aging population, coinciding with falling birth rates, has become a growing concern. "Older people today, including baby boomers, live longer than past generations," said Phillip Levine.

The Princeton Review is out with its list of the “best value colleges,” and several schools from Massachusetts are on the list. Wellesley College is 22nd.